Two software companies that sell course-management systems, Blackboard and Instructure, have entered the race to provide free online courses for the masses. On Thursday both companies plan to announce ...

LAS VEGAS -- After a year watching the hype over massive open online courses and keeping its distance, Blackboard said Wednesday it would join in. The company, which is by far the largest provider of ...

Innovative online educational programs such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are bringing professional education into the digital age. Their global reach, limitless subject range, open ...

MOOCs hold great potential to expand K-12 hybrid, or blended, learning, and also offer potential to increase student access to courses that might not be available in their brick-and-mortar schools, ...

The University of Adelaide is about to launch a massive open online course (MOOC) on project management with US provider edX. The six-week course, Introduction to Project Management, which starts on ...